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Director Christopher Smith on Shudder's newest horror film 'The Banishing'
I was fortunate to chat with director Christopher Smith on All Hallows' Eve about his spooky new film, The Banishing, right before the London-based filmmaker took his two young children out trick-or-treating; his nine-year-old going as Joaquin Phoeni...
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Write On with 'The Beta Test' Writer-Directors Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe
In The Beta Test, a married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data. Writer-Director Jim Cummings tells Write On: "I had the idea f...
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History of TV: The sardonic sincerity of MTV’s ‘Daria’
The glasses. The boots. The sardonic quips and monotone voice. You either get it — or you don’t, which is core to what made Daria, Daria. The adult animated sitcom premiered in 1997 on MTV and went on to deliver five seasons of sneers, satire, and pl...
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Beyond Status: The inaugural short film showcase of migrant filmmakers
Beyond Status is a new initiative for migrant filmmakers as part of The Center for Cultural Power’s work inspiring artists to manifest a world in which cultural, economic and political power is distributed equally.
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Christian Sesma's 'Every Last One of Them' isn't your average shoot-'em-up
In writer-director Christian Sesma's Every Last One of Them, ex-Black Ops soldier Jake Hunter, played by Paul Sloan, finds himself at the center of a revenge story as he desperately seeks to find his missing daughter.
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‘Ida Red’ and how John Swab creates a neo-western thriller
A crime boss sits in prison awaiting her parole date in hopes of getting out before her terminal illness takes her life. In a last-ditch effort, Ida "Red" Walker turns to her son, Wyatt, to pull off one last heist to help get her out of prison. Yet, ...
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Write On with ‘Last Night in Soho’ Writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns and Writer-Director Edgar Wright
The latest film from director Edgar Wright is about an aspiring fashion designer who is mysteriously able to enter 1960s London. Wright tells Write On: "[I started] having daydreams about being a kind of cultural time traveler, about how great it wou...
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Snakehead': Evan Jackson Leong's homage to the '70s gangster
Sister Tse, played by the incredible Shuya Chang in Evan Jackson Leong's Snakehead announces in the opening, "I never believed in the American Dream — all I knew was how to survive." It's this comment that sets the stage for the remainder of the film...
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Rising Through the Ranks: Kelechi Urama on getting optioned to staffing on a Starz show
When you see a tweet like, "Screenwriting update: Summer of 2020, I promised myself I’d be repped by the end of the year. I was repped by fall & optioned a pilot to a studio soon after. 2021 my goal was staffing. Now that the deal is closed, I’m ...
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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